Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff a raft of consumer, business and Government Spending pushed u. S. Economic growth into betterthanexpected territory. Gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of 3. 7 from april to june, according to the commerce department. Thats more than a percentage point higher than initial estimates. For comparison, japans economy shrank and germany and the u. K. Grew by less than a percent for the same tim
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station fewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff a raft of consumer, business and Government Spending pushed u. S. Economic growth into betterthanexpected territory. Gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of 3. 7 from april to june, according to the commerce department. Thats more than a percentage point higher than initial estimates. For comparison, japans economy shrank and germany and the u. K. Grew by less than a percent for the same time peri
Turnout did not go down in those states. In fact, georgia, which has a large africanamerican also in 2010 when there was no when barack obama was not on the ballot. And in 2012, our last president ial election. Do a survey reau election. Their census shows that black voters actually voted at a higher rate in the state of georgia with its voter i. D. In place. Indiana which has a photo i. D. Law thats been in place since 2008, thats the law that the Supreme Court upheld. According to the Census Bureau in the 2012 election, black voters outvoted white voters by more than 10 percentage point. So this idea that this is suppressing peoples right no vote is simply not the case and the data shows that. In fact, i think president obama actually agrees with that. He gave an interview about a week ago in which he said, talk about voter i. D. And other laws that most of these laws are not preventing the overwhelming majority of folks who dont vote from voting. Most people do have an i. D. Most pe
Eastern for analysis. Some of the most closely watched senate races throughout the country. Watched races across the country throughout the night and into the morning. We want to hear from you with calls, facebook comments, entry tweets. Now to alaska, where democratic senator mark begich it is running for reelection against dan sullivan is an. Tossup. Is considered a the recent debate was in anchorage, courtesy of Alaska Public Media. This is one hour. The debate for the state. Your moderator. Good evening. Welcome to debate for the state for u. S. Senate. I am the news director for the Alaska Public Media and public radio network. We coming to you live from anchorage. We have gathered to make our production a collaboration. Our guests are the candidates for u. S. Senate. Mark is seeking a second term. He was mayor of anchorage. His republican challenger is dan sullivan. The resources commissioner for the state of alaska. He was secretary of state in the bush administration. Ruskin, w
Customer that found the secret camera that led to this mans arrest. Police say there are at least 13 victims that they know of. All recorded without their knowledge here at this starbucks that you see behind me. The suspect 34yearold jacob turner of benicia. Police arrested him at home yesterday. Detectives say that turner used a flip video camera. Smaller than an iphone to secretly record an hours worth of video in a ever uni sex restroom. Customer noticed it and turned it in. Authorities say it will be possible to keeping without the victims identities but they did want to let all of the victims know in this case. Again those days are friday, february 16th in the afternoon and then last tuesday between 2 00 and 3 00. Live from walnut creek im tara moriarty, back to you. Thank you. Meantime on the peninsula, police are out there searching for a man who exposed himself to a jogger. San mateo police say it happened wednesday night on a pathway near the bay trail and seal point dog park.